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This section features articles that are meant to inform readers about perspectives, issues and debates around certain topics considered relevant within the ICT arena, as well as highlights about all those activities and themes that matter to the APC network and the spaces we engage in.

Gender and ICT Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Re-thinking ICT development through Gender SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina 16 January 2007 By Lamija Kosovic

Lamija Kosovic examines the country’s current ICTs situation in light of post-war reconstruction efforts, particularly to the need to integrate gender concerns by both the women’s national machinery and civil society organisations.

Wireless technology and blogging in Africa LONDON, United Kingdom 15 January 2007 By Focus on Africa

Following an APC coordinated meeting in London about wireless internet technology in Africa last December, John Dada and Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam gave interviews to the BBC World Service. Those of you not based in Africa may have missed the broadcasts. Here they are in mp3 files. Both were broadcast...

Submarine cables for Africa and monopolies in 2006
Submarine cables for Africa and monopolies in 2006 30 December 2006 By KH for APCNews

In March 2006, APC organised a consultation in Mombasa, Kenya to bring together key stakeholders who could have an influence on the model that the consortium might choose. A few weeks before the event, it became clear that the level of interest was much higher than expected.

Pakistan feds raid a VoIP startup
Pakistan feds raid a VoIP startup 17 December 2006 By BytesForAll

Blind use of authority, high-handedness of intelligence agencies, yawning gaps in policies and misleading rules and regulations have all converged on Pakistan in early December, when the Federal Investigation Agency and staff of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority raided the offices of small Vo...

The power of the internet: UN adopts convention on people living with disabilities in record time
The power of the internet: UN adopts convention on people living with disabilities in record time 14 December 2006 By UN

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a landmark disability convention that will benefit ten per cent of the world’s population. “It is the most rapidly negotiated human rights treaty in the history of international law; and the first to emerge from lobbying conducted extensively throu...

Indian media freedom campaigners welcome new community radio policy
Indian media freedom campaigners welcome new community radio policy 11 December 2006 By FN for APCNews

Eleven years after the Indian Supreme Court directed New Delhi to "open up the airwaves", campaigners who battled long for this to happen gave a sigh of relief when India finally opened up its broadcasts to community radio in mid November 2006.

Forget the wires, surf the airwaves
Forget the wires, surf the airwaves 11 December 2006 By KN and FD for APCNews

“ICTs play an increasingly important role in the day-to-day work of community radio producers,” states Karel Novotny at the ninth annual conference of AMARC. The World association of community radio broadcasters conference took place in Jordan’s capital city of Amman between November 11 and 17...

From the Olympus to the internet, a new network of journalists with a gender perspective
From the Olympus to the internet, a new network of journalists with a gender perspective 11 December 2006 By AL for APCNews

Artemisa is a Greek goddess that inspired two argentine communicators, Sanda Chaher and Sonia Santero, to promote the gender perspective in social communication. This “archetype" of the independent woman went from the Olympus to the internet through the Artemisa News portal. On November 16 and 17,...

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